Important Dates - 1843-1849

Question 1

what happened in 1843? *

Answer 1

Fort Bridger established - Jim Bridger, former mountain men, built fort Bridger on the Oregon trail. Fort Bridger had a store and a workshop/forge for wagons to be repaired.

Question 2

what happened in 1843? *

Answer 2

Great Migration - A thousand people made the journey West to Oregon. The highest number of migrants to make the journey west in any one year

Question 3

what happened in 1844?

Answer 3

Joseph smith killed - Joseph Smith founder of the Mormon religion, and his brother were shot and killed while imprisoned for destroying a printing press

Question 4

what happened in 1845?

Answer 4

Manifest Destiny - John O’Sullivan, editor of the New York newspaper ‘The Morning Post’, first used this phrase to express the long held belief that white Americans had a God given right to occupy the entire North American Continent

Question 5

what happened in 1846-47?

Answer 5

Mormons move to Salt Lake City - After the death of the Mormon leader, Joseph Smith, Brigham Young decided to take the Mormons away from the persecution they faced in the East and to build a new life for them at the Great Salt Lake

Question 6

what happened in 1848?

Answer 6

Gold discovered in California - James Marshall, a carpenter employed by John Sutter to build a mill at Sutter’s Ford, discovered Gold. News of the discovery was kept secret but soon 90,000 people from the east came to California to make their fortune. Those who arrived in 1849 were known as the ‘Forty-niners’

Question 7

what happened in 1849?

Answer 7

Perpetual Emigration Fund - The Mormons set this up to encourage Mormons from Britain, Europe and other parts of America to salt lake city